KL

Kowang Liu

HT Headway Technologies: 36 patents #38 of 309Top 15%
S( Sae Magnetics (H.K.): 5 patents #87 of 585Top 15%
OC Oplink Communications: 1 patents #61 of 109Top 60%
📍 Fremont, CA: #373 of 9,298 inventorsTop 5%
🗺 California: #12,730 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #88,750 of 4,157,543Top 3%
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Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12387750 DFH heater design Siu Yin Ngan, Ellis Cha 2025-08-12
12094497 Optimizing a current distribution in write heads for efficient energy-assisted magnetic recording Shehrin Sayed, Wenyu Chen, Yue Liu, Tetsuya Roppongi, Haowen REN +3 more 2024-09-17
12073857 Perpendicular magnetic recording head equipping a spin torque oscillator element with an electric current in side gaps Kei Hirata, Yue Liu, Jiun-Ting Lee, Weihao Xu 2024-08-27
11973310 Light source unit and thermally-assisted magnetic head Takashi Honda, Kwun Pan Ng, Makoto Kawato 2024-04-30
11289116 Patterned reader shields for a cooler reader Yuhui Tang, Siu Yin Ngan, Qinghua Zeng, Ellis Cha 2022-03-29
11211084 Protective shields under touchdown conditions for thermally assisted perpendicular magnetic recording Qinghua Zeng, Siu Yin Ngan, Ellis Cha 2021-12-28
10811034 Heat sink structure for microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) head Yan Wu 2020-10-20
10629233 Bumper pad design for TAMR drives Siu Yin Ngan, Qinghua Zeng, Ellis Cha, Xuhui Jin 2020-04-21
10566013 Semiconductor laser for thermally-assisted magnetic recording head Takashi Honda, Ryo Hosoi, Wah Chun Chan, Makoto Kawato, Dayu Zhou +1 more 2020-02-18
10482905 Magnetic core and coil design for double perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writers Yuhui Tang, Moris Dovek 2019-11-19
10360935 Dual write heater for slider surface topography control in double perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writers Siu Yin Ngan, Qing Hua Zeng, Ellis Cha 2019-07-23
10311900 Magnetic core and coil design for double perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writers Yuhui Tang, Moris Dovek 2019-06-04
10279451 Dual perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer application with special up and down head assignment for best areal density in hard disk drive (HDD) Yue Liu, Yuhui Tang, Moris Dovek 2019-05-07
9659584 Dynamic flying height read/write head with off-track contact capability at touch down in hard disk drives 2017-05-23
9218830 Magnetic pole self-annealing with current injection in perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) Yan Wu 2015-12-22
9105287 Method of forming a PMR writer device with multi-level tapered write pole Zhigang Bai, Yan Wu, Moris Dovek 2015-08-11
9025280 PMR writer device with multi-level tapered write pole Zhigang Bai, Yan Wu, Moris Dovek 2015-05-05
8881376 Method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording head laminated with AFM-FM phase change material Yuchen Zhou, Kenichi Takano, Kunliang Zhang, Liejie Guan, Moris Dovek +1 more 2014-11-11
8848495 Plasmon generator self-annealing with current injection in TAMR Yan Wu 2014-09-30
8817425 Dual-piece heat sink layer for robust reader in magnetic recording head Yan Wu, Glen Garfunkel, Min Li 2014-08-26
8810962 Insertion under read shield for improved read gap actuation in dynamic flying height Yan Wu 2014-08-19
8670212 PMR writer device with multi-level tapered write pole Zhigang Bai, Yan Wu, Moris Dovek 2014-03-11
8654618 TAMR structure with HDI sensor for head-disk interference and temperature rise sensing Xuhui Jin, Xiaohua Lou 2014-02-18
8593915 Thermally-assisted magnetic recording head capable of reducing the transient protrusion of an antenna Erhard Schreck, Kouji Shimazawa, Po-Kang Wang 2013-11-26
8446692 Perpendicular magnetic recording head laminated with AFM-FM phase change material Yuchen Zhou, Kenichi Takano, Kunliang Zhang, Liejie Guan, Moris Dovek +1 more 2013-05-21